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Creation of a digital archive of social reform movements among the Dalit and lower caste groups in Kerala, South West India
This project will carry out a survey of documents related to Dalit and lower caste social reform movements in the twentieth century Kerala, South…
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Digitisation of the manuscripts and xylographs held by the Tibetan Yungdrung Bon Library of the Menri Monastery in Dolanji, India
The Menri Monastery in northern India possesses the world's largest collection of manuscripts and block-print books relating to Bon, the pre-…
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Survey of endangered audio material still available with private collectors in India
This project will conduct a survey to discover what endangered audio material is held by private collectors in several locations in India. A…
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Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals published prior to 1950 from public institutions in Eastern India
This pilot project will prepare an index of books from eastern India, available in public libraries in West Bengal and Assam but which are lacking…
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Conservation and digitisation of manuscripts from the Raja Mahmudabad Library
This project will seek to catalogue, preserve and digitise the most vulnerable Arabic and Persian manuscripts from the library of the Raja of…
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Shantipur and its neighbourhood: Text and images of early modern Bengal in public and private collections
This pilot project aims to document available non-copyrighted and endangered literature from private collections and public institutions in the…
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The Monastic Manuscript Project: Preservation of the Archives of Śaiva Monastic Lineages
Over the past decades, scholars of the early history of Śaivism have recovered a wealth of manuscript data that has revolutionized our…
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Private records of some leading business families of early colonial Bengal
This project aims to explore the diverse range of material in the custody of the descendants of leading business families of Bengal. The main…
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Locating and Sampling Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam Manuscripts in Kerala, South India
The project aims at contacting archives holding Arabic and Arabic-Malayalam manuscripts and lithographs. We will sample texts from two public and…
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Study and documentation of endangered memorial stones and inscriptions in Dharmapuri District, Tamil Nadu
The project is to survey and digitally document endangered memorial stones seen in various places in four taluks in the Dharmapuri district of…
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Representing Self and Family. Preserving early Tamil studio photography
This pilot project will document and preserve Tamil studio photography, and therefore family portraiture, since its appearance in the mid-late 19th…
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Survey of Bengal puthis discovered in Sundarbans, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
This pilot project aims to rescue & record Bengali manuscripts, or puthis, in private museums in the Sundarban coastal belt of West Bengal,…
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Documenting royalty through the changing political culture in Kongu Nadu, South India, 1400-1950
The pilot project “Documenting royalty through the changing political culture in Kongu Nadu, South India,1400‐1950” aims to digitise vulnerable…
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Sanskrit and Malayalam manuscripts from the Thrissur monastic complex
This project aims at providing a preliminary survey of the manuscript collection kept in the main Hindu monastic complex of Thrissur (Kerala, South…
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Lama Mani: the texts and narrative thangkas of India’s exiled Tibetan storytellers
This project will locate, survey and document the performance‐related material belonging to the late Lama Mani storytellers within India’s exiled…
